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Pennsylvania is a state
that has a rich history, including many
battles from the revolutionary war era.
The Paoli Massacre in Malvern. The
Paoli Battlefield is the site of the
slaughter of fifty-two American soldiers by
English troops. There is a memorial
established at the battlefield to
commemorate the lives of those slain
soldiers, but there are also rumors of a
fifty-third soldier. The geophysics
class of Fall 2018 visited the memorial to
perform geophysical investigations to
identify the burial location of the
fifty-third soldier.
GPR surveys were
conducted using a GSSI SIR 4000 control unit
with 400MHz and 500MHz antenna at a line
spacing of 1ft. Magnetometer surveys
were performed with a G-858 in gradiometer
mode with similar line spacing.
Unfortunately, due to the length of time
that passed between interment and
geophysical surveying, as well as the number
of large trees in and around the survey
location, the geophysical survey results did
not produce any indication of the burial
location of the fifty-third soldier.
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The memorial established to the fifty-two
soldiers who died in the Paoli Massacre
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